You often hear the phrase “Make the punishment fit the crime.” Judges often try to do this when handing out sentences, but sometimes that leads to bizarre plans that cause public outrage or go against our sup...

The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...ide Shelby’s “Apparatus for Obtaining Criminal Confessions and Photographically Recording Them&r... ...atent 1749090, granted 1930) tried to ensure that criminals , having been caught, would confess—and woul...

[Insert here a joke that my wife would not find at all funny.]Am I right, guys? Ha!So, anyway: Israel Silva of Lovell, Wyoming took a plea deal on several charges related to a high-speed, alcohol-fueled police chase afte...

The follwing is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.A haphazard look at inventions to trap bad guysby Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Stephen Drew, Improbable Research staffIn the lusty tussle between Good and E...

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A man in East London, South Africa, knocked on the door of a home and asked if the resident had any work he could do. The couple who lived there were astonished to see what the man was wearing -their clothes!
He was dec...

This blog has the tagline "an illustrated intr... ...g has the tagline "an illustrated introduction to criminal law and procedure." It's part webcomic and part l... ...interesting. Author Nathaniel Burney breaks down criminal culpability into small pieces so we can understan...

A Frenchman and an Irishman went into a bar in New Zealand, but they weren't supposed to. And they might have gotten away with the crime if they hadn't left their camera with shots of their escapade in it.
David Farrell...